Léon Camille Marius Croizat
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Biography
Léon Camille Marius Croizat was a French-Italian scholar and botanist who developed an orthogenetic synthesis of the evolution of biological form over space, in time, which he called panbiogeography.
"I have indeed lived and worked to my taste either in art or science. What more could a man desire? Knowledge has always been my goal. There is much that I shall leave behind undone…but something at least I was privileged to leave for the world to use, if it so intends…As the Latin poet said I will leave the table of the living like a guest who has eaten his fill. Yes, if I had another life to spend, I certainly would not waste it. But that cannot be, so why complain?"